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Looking at religions today
Welcome to our article, Looking at religions today.
Today people are less interested in religions, than they were in the past, because of what is happening. We can think of various reasons why this is happening, Perhaps the reasons why religions are not as important, it is because today people can easily see what other people believe, thanks to the internet that has put an end to separatism. Because we see that other people believe in religions and God in different ways, the faithful are not so sure anymore what to believe, for this reason they are not attached to religions as they were before.
But that is not
the only reason, because there are several reasons that can affect people
beliefs; therefore, we should look at what is happening in religious circles;
you see, today there are many happenings reported on the news, which can make
religious people upset. This would include, the Islamic terrorist that kill
people in the name of their God Allah, (which sound crazy to most of us), then,
the pedophilias in the roman Catholic Church, and other things, which soon or
later affects the beliefs, of religious people. Now, let us view a couple of
pedophilias cases that were reported in the news. We said a couple, because
there are too many, if we want to report them here, so, here-under is a shortened
version, of what has been reported in the news, just to see what we are talking
about; here I quote:
Sex orgies, prostitution, porn: Allegations shake Catholic
Church in Italy
ROME (RNS) — Lurid accusations of priests involved in sex orgies, porn videos
and prostitution have emerged from several parishes in Italy recently, sending
shock waves all the way to the Vatican and challenging the high standards Pope
Francis demands on clergy.
In the southern city of Naples, for example, a priest was recently suspended
from the parish of Santa Maria degli Angeli over claims he held gay orgies and
used Internet sites to recruit potential partners whom he paid for sex.
The allegations concerning the Rev. Mario D’Orlando were brought to the
attention of the diocese when an anonymous letter was sent to a Naples
bishop. D’Orlando denied the charges when he was summoned by the city’s
archbishop, Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, but is now facing a formal inquiry
conducted by local church officials.
In the northern city of Padua, a 48-year-old priest, the Rev. Andrea Contin,
is facing defrocking as well as judicial proceedings amid accusations he had up
to 30 lovers, some of whom he took to a swingers’ resort in France.
Contin was removed from his parish of San Lazzaro after three women came
forward with complaints against him in December. Bishop Claudio Cipolla of
Padua cut short a visit to Latin America to deal with the scandal.
End of quote from news report.
We have cut this report about the Roman Catholic priests disgusting
behavior short, because it would make just every religious person sick, if you
read them all.
Here we can say, that the only positive thing about this mess in the Roman
Catholic church, is pope Francis that wants to impose harsher rules and
punishment to the failing clergy. I hope that he succeeds in fixing those
problems, because people still need God and religions to guide them, so that
they can live a meaningful life. Now let us talk about other religious problem,
that the world is witnessing today.
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About other religions with problems.
Now let us look
at the Muslim religious problem, because they have more problems than they believe they have. Then we hope that we can suggest a way how they can fix it.
Above, we have
talked about the Roman Catholic Church having a problem with the pedophilias in
priesthood. Now, let us switch religions and talk about, the Muslim religious
problems. Yes, the Muslim religion have their problems, even if they deny them,
one of the worst problems is the Islamic terrorists, that as we see from this
side of the Western border, they are the most destructive people in living
memory. Yes, they are the most destructive religious people today, because they
believe in a God that wants them to kill other people. This believing in a God
that wants you to kill other people is absurd, because by simple
human reasoning, this God that wants you to kill other people cannot exist. The
reason that this God cannot exist, it is because God has created us and every
living thing, so, if God is the creator, God will not want to kill his own
created life; therefore, if any spiritual entity that wants to kill people
exists; then this entity cannot be God, and must not be called God. This is how
I believe God needs to be, God is life and the protector of life.
Anyhow, I
believe that, these people that are going around killing other people, they are
still living in the past, like a thousand years ago, or when their religion was
born about 1500 years ago; they may say and even believe themselves that their
religion is a peaceful loving religion, and it is not an aggressive religion,
but they don’t realize that as soon as something goes wrong, they talk about,
holy war, as if wars can be holy and ordained by God. There must be something
wrong with this religion, or perhaps it is the people themselves that are to
blame, because they are war loving people, so, they use their religion as an
excuse to make wars and kill other people.
So, today they
still make wars to each other easily, sometimes the western world gets
involved, but this make things even worse, because then, these Islamic
religious people can blame somebody else for what is happening. They never
think that it is their Islamic religion that leads them to be the way they are,
they are war loving people. It has got to be so, because when their prophet Muhammad
started to preach the Koran, they were fighting each other with endless wars,
these wars were extremely violent, in those times people had to win the war or
better die.
So, their
prophet Muhammad, had to preach how to keep his people together and how to
fight and win the wars. And this he did with great success.
So, the nature
of the Koran, has got to have this war like machine mentality written within it,
which even today we can easily see, when the Islamic people talk about JIHAD
and kill in the name of Allah their God.
This is how we
the people of the Western world, see this Islamic religion, we see these
religious people that do not want to change their ways at all, when everybody
else is changing, because they want to adapt to the present times. But the
Muslims don’t want to change, they want to live in the past, using past
religious values, which at the time when they were made, needed to be that way to survive.
Some
people say that they would like to compare, Our Lord Jesus Christ to the
prophet Muhammad, but to us Christians this sounds even absurd, how can a
prophet that guides people to fight and win wars, to be compared to our Lord Jesus Christ that
talks only forgiveness.
So, there
cannot be any comparison at all.
I can say a lot
of other things here, but I am not going to, because I would like my readers to
meditate about what has been said, which is the differences between Our Lord
Jesus Christ and the prophet Muhammad. Since I am a Christian I would choose our Lord Jesus Christ.
Anyhow, I believe that in the future Jesus Christ will become even more important, since He is the link that links us to God spiritual force.
May God bless us all.
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